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New Englands prospect. : A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English planters; and to the old native inhabitants. Laying downe that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling reader, or benefit the future voyager.

by: Wood, William, fl. 1629-1635; Crowninshield, Edward A., 1817-1859. fmo RPJCB

Publication date: 1634

Topics: Indians of North America, Massachuset language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1634

Publisher: Printed at London : by Tho. Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shop, at the three golden lyons in Corne-hill, neere the Royall Exchange

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English; Algonquian

"Earliest topographical account of the Massachusetts Colony by a resident of four years."--Vail, R.W.G. Voice of the old frontier, p. 87

Map has caption: The south part of New-England, as it is planted this yeare, 1634

Signatures: A-O (O4 verso blank)

"Errata."--p. [8], 1st count

Includes selection of vocabulary in the Massachuset language: p. [1-5], 3rd group

Woodcut ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials

Church, E.D. Discovery

STC (2nd ed.)

Alden, J.E. European Americana

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1482-1700

Pilling, J.C. North American

Vail, R. Old frontier

ESTC (RLIN)

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library: E.A. Crowninshield: bookplate